I Had Me a Girl

I had me a girl

Taught me those things

A young man should know

Down, down on my knees

I'd beg and I'd plead

To learn a little bit more

Oh, that woman taught me to pray

I saw heaven every day

Lord, she could

I had me a boy

Who buttoned me down

Threw me a line

He, he washed me as clean

As a sinner could be

Showed me the light

Ooh that boy, he taught me to pray

But for all of his spit-shining ways

Lord, he could

I had me a girl

Like cigarette smoke

She came and she went

Ooh, I slipped through his hands

To my backdoor man

Under his chin

Oh, that woman taught me to pray

But for all her wandering ways

She could